From Rembrandt to the First World War, through specialists including Atkinson Grimshaw, Eugène Jansson, Schikaneder, and Le Sidaner.
landscape
Mounts Fuji, Cotopaxi, Merapi, St Helens, and above all the most painted of all, Vesuvius during its violent eruptions.
Paintings of rugged mountains on the coast and lining deep fjords, from Peder Balke, Hans Gude, Eilert Normann, and others.
Paintings of Kangchenjunga and Everest, and sundry peaks of the Himalaya, by Edward Lear, Marianne North and Nicholas Roerich.
Following the footsteps of Alexander von Humboldt’s expedition of 1802, it was Frederic Edwin Church who painted this huge mountain range, and became famous as a result.
The changing colours of trees and their leaves in the autumn/fall, celebrated in paintings from John Ferguson Weir in 1901 to Paul Nash in 1944.
The changing colours of trees and their leaves, celebrated in paintings from Paulus Potter in 1652 to Paul Signac in 1903.
With 8 named peaks over 5,000 metres (16,400 feet), this range on the border between Europe and Asia forms a formidable barrier.
Paintings of alpine meadows, often used as summer grazing in the transhumance. Men from the lower valleys took their livestock up to the plateau to graze for the summer.
More gold grain crops and sunsets from Samuel Palmer and his mentor John Linnell during the middle of the nineteenth century.
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